Ir-responsible Journalism...

Supertopo.com has had a pretty interesting thread recently about responsible journalism regarding treatment of rock climbing and its legality on the Navajo Reservation sparked by the current issue of Rock and Ice Magazine...  I posted my short article at SuperTopo I wrote some three years ago for Climbing Magazine on the same topic... Really good dialogue happening, getting a lot of climbers thinking critically about their actions and its effects on cultures outside our own... 

My stance is still the same. I have not climbed on the Reservation, nor do I plan to...

Monument Valley Time Travel...

Tailwinds Magazine out of Tucson Arizona published another feature I wrote and shot and it is the current issue for July/August. This particular Tailwinds issue is horse-heavy, thus my article was on horseback riding in Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation... A readable version is also online (page 9) at issuu and viewable here.

The unbelievable scenery in Monument Valley - A very different experience by horse... ©Bennett Barthelemy